Mdevcon 2015
Last week Mdevcon 2015 (Mobile Developers Conference) took place in Amsterdam. A couple of our guys attended Mdevcon to gain more knowledge in their fields, either iOS or Android.
Tutorial Day
On Thursday the 5th of March in the NH Carlton Hotel was a tutorial day which was attended by three of our colleagues: Maksymillian, Oleksandr and Jeffrey. Even though some of the other attendees experienced WiFi problems there were some interesting workshops. These workshops ranged with topics from Couchbase to Appium, Xamarin and a Swift tutorial. The team had a hands-on experience with these topics provided by real-time examples along with code examples to work with the services explained.
Conference Day
On Friday the 6th of March in the Tuschinski Cinema the conference itself took place. The day started with an interesting keynote about the saturated “app(lications)” market and how the silver age has started.
During the day there were presentations with various topics we could attend. The topics we attended were: security flaws with authentication and authorization related to insecure passwords, iOS Testing, Design for Developers, Apple Watch, debugging with LLDB, Android smart watches, the Internet of Things, Swift in production, iOS animations with Auto-Layout, Android TV and Azure Mobile Services.
The conference ended with an intriguing speech about how we could design with cognitive science in mind. This means that we should remember to design applications that are meant for humans. Humans have mechanisms of cognition (patterns, peripheral attention and working memory) which impact the way they perceive user interfaces. By designing in this manner we could make habit changing applications.
In conclusion, attending both the tutorial and conference was a lot of fun, helpful and interesting. For some of us it was our first conference and we did not regret going. With our gained knowledge we hope to improve the way of working and overall expertise at Elements.
Originally published at www.elements.nl on March 9, 2015.
